Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-19

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Application has been made to the Treasury
Department for the free entry at San Fran
cisco of Chinese joss for joss-house.
Free entry is claimed on the ground that
the Joss comes under the classification of
images and regalia for religious associa-
tions The joss is $50 feet long, and is
composed of wood, paper, tinsel metal, etc.
Opium Smuggling Across the Border.
WASHINGTON, March 18th The Treasury
Department is informed that opium is
being smuggled into the United States
through Detroit and the suspension bridge
districts, and is then shipped to San Fran
cisco, where it is placed on the market.
According to reports received on the sub
ject, opium is shipped from China through
British Columbia, and thence across the
lakes.
The Life-saving Service.
WASHINGTON, March 1Sth-Instruction
have been issued to Superintendents of the
Life-Saying Districts embracing the great
lakes to man their stations and put them
into operation at the opening of navigation.
The stations in the lower districts will be-
gin operations April 1st.
A Lady's Loss by Fire.
WASHINGTON, March 1Sth.-[Special. i
The residence of Mrs Frances Hodgson
Burnett, the novelist, took fire tonight
from defective fiues, and the upper story
was destroyed. The pictures, bric-a-brac,
furniture, etc., were completely ruined by
water.
Gorham to be Stanton's Biographer.
WASHINGTON, March 1Sth.-[Special. L
George Gorham has been employed to write
the life of Edwin NJ. Stanton and collect
his private papers saved during the time he
was Secretary OF War.
Postmaster and Postmistress.
WASHINGTON, March 1Sth.-TSpecial. i
VIM. H. Foreman has been commissioned
Postmaster at Benicia, and Belle Lyon
Postmistress at Lyonsville, Cal.
Steam-Heated Cars
New YORK, March 1Sth-The Superin-
tendent of the Motive Power of the New
York Central Railroad said this afternoon
that the trial of the steam car-heating ap-
paratus, which was made yesterday on a
train running from Peekskill to this city,
demonstrated the feasibility of the scheme
The trouble of connecting the pipes be-
tween the cars was overcome by the use of
brass telescope ard ball-and-socket joint.
Steam is used direct from the locomotive
boiler through pressure-reducing valve,
| and strain of five pounds is carried on
the pipes. The main difficulties hitherto
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| railroads have been in connecting the pipes
between the cars and in reducing the press
ure of the steam.
No Seats for Deadheads.
New YORK, March 1Sth.-Adam Fore
paugh has leased the Academy of Music
at yearly rental of $4,000. He proposes
to charge but 10 cents, 20 cents and 80
cents, with the best seats in the house at
only 90 cents. His representative says
We will not exhibit single lithograph or
poster, and will place whatever advertise
ments we wish to put out in the newspa-
pers, thus doing away with the great army
of deadheads who are accustomed to enter
on bill l-board tickets. Not a complimentary
ticket will be presented, and everybody,
the press included, will have to pay for ad-
mission"
Lawton's Office Besieged.
New YORK, March 1Sth.-The office of
Walter E. Lawton, 81 Broadway, this
morning was besieged with excited credit
ors, who could not get much information,
as the chief bockkeeper of the firm had
disappeared. Rufus Y. Kirkland partner
of Lawton, is making an examination of
the affairs of the absconding debtor, whose
defalcations will amount to more than
100000
New Device for Heating Cars.
New YORK, March 1Sth-At meeting
of the Master Car-builders. from all over
the country, here yesterday, H. J. Frost,
of Salt Lake City. made a good i'm
preston with his new device for heating
cars, which is of the ordinary stove pat
tern, but inside was attached tank of
water, which flooded the stove when upset.
Honors for " Buffalo Bill.
OMAHA. March 1Sth.-Governor Thayer
has commissioned w. F. Cody ('' Buffalo
Bill y as Aid-de-Camp on his staff, with
the rank Of Colonel, and also as Commits
sioner of Nebraska to the American Exhi-
bition in London.
A Half Million Distributed.
New YoRK, March 1Sth-The will of the
late G. G. Sickles is understood to dispose
of about 500, 600 worth of property Each
of his daughters will receive $4,000, his
widow third, and his only heir, General
Sickles the residue.
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